Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.5 update/old kernel+old fglrx

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Adam Carter<Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au> wrote:
> I havent been following this thread but have you checked the open source drivers? New features are always being ported in. The two options are;
> - Radeon driver (module is named ati)
> - Radeonhd driver (module is named radeon)
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> Check out the current features here http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature all boxes are for the radeon/ati driver unless the box contains (RHD, in which case it's the radeonhd/radeon driver). In particular TV out should work on R100/R200/R300 based cards.
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It's a great question and one I'd like to answer. Someone else
suggested this yesterday I think. Thanks for suggesting I get back to
it.

I am scanning the /var/log/Xorg.0.log looking for info on what chip
this is. I'm not finding anything that says what Radeon family it's
part of. lspci tells me what I posted here already - that it's part of
the IGP 9100 family.

I found this page at the AMD/ATI site but I suspect it's for a newer
version of the chipset:

http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon9100igp/features.html

I'm going to pursue this with more dedication as it is really the only
current path I've heard of so far that gives me a chance to stay
current with Gentoo.

What VIDEO_DEVICES setting might one use to get this driver called up?
Either ati or radeon and check that it installs Open Source?

It is a bunch of work, but it would be great if I can use it.

Thanks,
Mark

DesertFlower ~ # lspci -vv
<SNIP>

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100
IGP (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8107
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 64 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Region 1: I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
        Region 2: Memory at fde00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Expansion ROM at fdd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
                Status: RQ=256 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=7 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64-
HTrans- 64bit+ FW+ AGP3+ Rate=x4,x8
                Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP- GART64- 64bit-
FW- Rate=<none>
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-